Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night

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The poems I experienced reading during this class allowed me to understand poetry to a newer level. Prior to this I feared poetry and reading it based on experiences of high school and the disaster of trying to learn, here I was able to bring myself to accept and actually understand what I was actually reading. I was able to relate or understand the writer’s link to personal experiences into my own life. This experience was more enlightening making the learning process that much enjoyable; taking that major dislike away.
Some of the poems that I enjoyed reading or having a personal experience similar to the poem were Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night, similar to my experience as a teenager and my grandfather’s death, as he was my idol growing

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